Arson

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On January 11, 2015, attackers firebombed the offices of the German daily Hamburger Morgenpost,in Hamburg, northern Germany, in apparent retaliation for the tabloid's reprinting of several cartoons from the French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo on its front page, according to news reports. The press reported that arsonists threw a firebomb and stones through a Hamburgen Morgenpost window. No one was injured, the reports said.

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New York, October 7, 2013--Authorities in the Maldives should conduct a thorough and efficient investigation into an arson attack on the offices of a TV news station in Male, the capital, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

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New
York, July 30, 2012--Mexican authorities must immediately investigate an arson
attack on the offices of a supplement owned by the daily El Norte, the third attack on an El Norte publication this month, the Committee to Protect
Journalists said today.

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New York, June 6, 2011--The Committee
to Protect Journalists called on Colombian authorities today to thoroughly
investigate the attempted murder of the director of a provincial television
station in Colombia. Mario Esteban López Ortega, known for his criticism of
local authorities, escaped an assassination attempt on Tuesday after he was abducted
in the city of Ipiales, Nariño province.

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New York, May 13, 2011--Investigators in Kabale must thoroughly investigate an arson attack on
the home of Goodluck Musinguzi, contributor to the state-owned daily, New
Vision, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Someone poured
gasoline on the house and set it on fire while Musinguzi, his wife, and his newborn
child were inside, he told CPJ. Musinguzi, a correspondent for the daily in the
southwest border town Kabale, escaped the 2 a.m. blaze with his family but part
of his house was destroyed.

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Dear President Ouattara: We are writing to ask that you uphold press freedom now that you have taken office. We ask that you ensure that journalists and media outlets close to former president Laurent Gbagbo are allowed to report freely, and take all necessary steps to solve the disappearance since 2004 of French-Canadian journalist Guy-André Kieffer.

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New York, April 26, 2011--The Community to Protect Journalists condemned Thursday's arson attack on Haitian community radio station Tèt Ansanm Karis and called on local authorities to bring the perpetrators to justice. The blaze destroyed the station's offices and all equipment and left the northeastern city of Carice without a local radio station.

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New York,
January 31, 2011--Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon must press the United Nations to address the string of uninvestigated
and unprosecuted attacks on journalists and media houses under the government
of Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. CPJ responded after an early Monday morning arson attack on the
offices of the independent Sri Lankan website Lanka
eNews in the Malabe suburb of the capital, Colombo. Staff
members told CPJ that everything in the offices had been destroyed, although no
one was injured in the 2 a.m. raid. The outspoken website posted pictures of
the destruction.